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Last year we launched Made in Bristol as an opportunity for 12 of our Young Company graduates to train together, make work together and to develop their skills as workshop leaders. The Wardrobe Ensemble is their theatre company, and we are delighted to present this double bill of their work. 'I saw a woman screaming slightly louder than the rest. She lifted her child into the air, trying to pass it to a group of yellow crusaders. It was like Vietnam without the napalm.' 10th February 2005. At the stroke of midnight the British punch, kick, strangle and eventually stab their way to £45 sofas and £35 bed frames at the opening of their favourite Swedish furniture store. RIOT is an epic tale of violence, greed, and cheap sofas. With frenetic, eclectic force The Wardrobe Ensemble tear up the instructions and disregard the diagrams to construct a musical tragedy of a thoroughly modern kind. Sense follows the tangled relationships of a group of teenagers through poetic streams of consciousness. In the moments that transcend normality they discover what it means to love and be loved. All five 'senses' are explored and are plays in their own right. Each sense will be previewed after RIOT with the full run of the production on Saturday.

Creatives/Company

Author(s): Anja Hilling (Sense), The Wardrobe Ensemble (Riot)
Company: Wardrobe Ensemble
Director: Miranda Cromwell (Sense - co-directed with The Wardrobe Ensemble)